Prates learns who you write to, what you are working on, and how you put things. Then it writes like you in the apps on your Mac, whether you speak, ask for a draft, or type.
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This demonstration shows three ways to write with Prates, each using the same knowledge. Speak: replying to Ingrid Berg in Mail, someone holds the right Option key and says “uh hi Ingrid thanks for sending this over section three is strong but I think the pricing table needs another pass can we go through it Thursday at ten”. Prates pastes: “Hi Ingrid, thanks for sending this over. Section 3 is strong, but I think the pricing table needs another pass. Let’s aim for Thursday at 10 to go through it. Best,”. Ask: in an empty Teams reply to Ingrid, who asks where the Haugland Q3 numbers landed, they tap right Option three times and Prates drafts the whole reply. Type: in a Word status update, they type “Decision:” and Prates suggests the rest, ending with a list of open questions. Each draft draws on notes Prates learned in other apps, such as how they write to Ingrid, their view on churn figures, and how they structure status updates.
Say it, ask for it, or start typing. Whichever you choose, the text sounds like you.
right ⌥Hold
Hold right ⌥ and talk. Finished text appears where you were writing.
How dictation works⌥⌥⌥Tap three times
Tap the same key three times and Prates drafts the reply. Select text, and it rewrites that instead.
How drafts workTabAccept
Write as usual, and Prates offers the rest beside your cursor, as you type or only when you ask. Press Tab to take it.
How suggestions workLearned from what you finish in the apps you write in, and kept on your Mac.
An assistant built into one app only knows that app. Prates works underneath the apps on your Mac with one memory, so a view you gave in an email can shape the draft you ask for in Teams the next morning.
Notes
Ingrid BergEstablished
Partner on the Nordlys proposal. You write to her in full sentences, friendly and direct, in one short paragraph signed “Best,”.
Person Seen in Mail, Slack, and Teams
Churn figuresLikely
You want any churn figure checked with Ingrid before a client sees it.
View Seen in Slack and Mail
HauglandLikely
A pricing review for a client. You own the Q3 numbers, and Mats Lie prepares them.
Project Seen in Mail, Slack, and Word
Status updatesEstablished
You open with the decision, then list the open questions as short lines.
Habit Seen in Teams and Word
Proposing a timeEstablished
You write “let’s aim for Thursday” rather than “we should meet on Thursday”.
Wording Seen in Slack, Mail, and Teams
Prates does not import your mailbox or your files. It learns from each message you finish, keeps a short note of what that message shows about you, and checks its notes against what you write next.
Each message you finish
When you finish a dictation, or a message you typed with learning from writing turned on, Prates waits for a quiet moment. The learning model then adds a short note, or confirms one it has, about a person, a project, a view, a goal, a habit, or a turn of phrase. The note records where and when it was seen, never the message.
Over the first weeks
A new note starts as seen once. Each time your writing confirms it, Prates trusts it more, through likely to established. A habit you have with one person counts only once it has held for three messages and clearly differs from how you write to everyone else.
Over months
Notes you never confirm fade, and are removed once they are 180 days past their last confirmation. People you have not written to for 180 days are forgotten. When you change a habit, five messages in a row are enough for the new one to lead.
Your language, greeting, sign-off, length, and use of paragraphs, lists, and punctuation are counted without any model. Prates keeps only the counts and short phrases, with names taken out, so “Hei Anna,” is kept as “Hei {name},”.
When a note that has held before changes, Prates keeps what it said and tries both versions against your next messages where the note applies. Two wins make the change final, and two losses change the note back.
A note confirmed in several places is not overturned by messages from one person or app. The disagreement waits beside the note, and can become a note of its own for that person or place.
Learning runs after a few quiet minutes and stops the moment you start dictating. Notes are found through a small index on your Mac, so using them adds no model call before a paste.
Every note, habit, and correction is on the Knowledge page with the evidence behind it. You can search it, remove any part of it, and go back to an earlier version.
If you like, Prates backs up your notes, corrections, and dictionary to a Git repository you own. It asks first, and it never sends History or recordings there.
right ⌥ Speak
Hold right ⌥, speak, and let go. Prates turns your voice into text on your Mac, tidies it if you have turned on rewriting, and puts it where you were writing. It follows the edits you make afterwards and learns from them.
Slack Chat
Correction “hoglund” is now written “Haugland”.
Learned from three earlier dictations and applied before rewriting.
Chat style Short sentences, and “I” left out when the meaning is clear.
Used only after passing a check on dictations it had not seen.
⌥⌥⌥ Ask
Tap right ⌥ three times in a text field, or press Control-Option-Tab. Prates reads the conversation and drafts the whole reply, or the rest of what you started. Select text first, and it rewrites that instead.
In this example, a rough email to a client is selected: “hi erik numbers attached, churn lower than expected bc paused accounts dont count anymore. shout if q's”. Prates offers a rewrite in your client style, which you can accept with Tab.
Tab Type
Start typing, and Prates offers the rest of your message beside the cursor. It drafts everything still to be written, not just the end of the sentence.
In this example, Mats Lie writes in Slack: “Updated the Haugland numbers in the shared sheet. Q3 churn came out at 4.1%, lower than we expected. OK to send it to the client tomorrow?” You have typed “Thanks Mats,” and Prates suggests the rest of the reply.
Speech recognition always runs on your Mac, so your voice is never uploaded. For rewriting, learning, and drafts, you choose where the text goes: a model on this Mac, your own cloud account, or an AI tool you already use. Setup names the destination before anything is sent.
Speech to text always runs on your Mac. Rewriting, learning, and writing share the one connection you set up, and each can use its own model from it, such as a quick one for rewriting and a stronger one for learning.
Your voice and recordings never leave it. History and Knowledge are stored on your Mac and are never uploaded as a whole: a model gets only the text a task needs, as described above. Rewriting, learning, and the writing companion are all optional, and dictation works without any of them.
Password fields and password managers are always skipped, and so are the apps and websites you exclude. Text that looks like a key, a token, or a password is hidden before it reaches any model.
«Kan vi flytte gjennomgangen av Haugland-tallene til torsdag? Jeg vil gå gjennom dem med Mats først.»
Prates is made in Oslo, and it offers NB-Whisper from the National Library of Norway for Bokmål and Nynorsk. Tap right ⌥ twice to move to your next language, and rewriting keeps the language you spoke instead of translating it.
Prates asks before it reads or sends anything, so the first few minutes are spent choosing.
Prates emails you a six-digit code. There is no password and no card. Dictation waits until you have signed in.
A setup guide asks for the microphone and Accessibility, which Prates needs to hear you and to paste, then the languages you speak, how much help you want, which model writes, what Prates may read, and what it may learn. You can open it again whenever you like.
Dictate your first sentence into a practice field inside Prates, and the guide shows the keys for drafts before you use them in your own apps.
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Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Apple silicon is recommended.
Yes, but there is no password. When you first open Prates, you enter your email address and the six-digit code Prates emails you, and dictation waits until you have done so. The website never keeps your address: it knows your account only by a keyed hash of it. One account works on up to three Macs.
Short notes about the people you write to, your projects and views, and how you like to write. It keeps the notes, not the messages they came from. They stay on your Mac, and you can read or remove every one of them on the Knowledge page.
No. Speech recognition runs on your Mac. If you choose a cloud model or an AI tool, only text goes to it, and you can see above exactly which text.
No. Dictation works on its own, and rewriting, drafts, and suggestions can use a free model running on your Mac. You can also use a cloud account or an AI tool you already have.
Dictation works anywhere you can paste text. Drafts and suggestions work in apps that show their text to macOS, which includes many mail, chat, office, and browser apps. Some apps built on web pages, such as Microsoft Teams, show their text only when an assistive app asks, so Prates asks for you. PowerPoint shows its slide text to no other app, so Prates reads slides through PowerPoint’s own scripting, with your permission. When an app shows no text at all, Prates says so rather than guessing.
Whisper understands 99 languages, and NB-Whisper is trained for Norwegian. Tap right ⌥ twice to switch between the ones you use.
Dictation, file transcription, rewriting, learning, and suggestions pause. Your History, Knowledge, and settings stay on your Mac and can still be exported, and everything carries on if you subscribe again.
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